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Sorry for the late review I said I'd do last week but I had to wait till my NF 6 bolt rings turned up as I ordered a Unimount which ended up being way too high! Anyway here goes!
1. Opening the box I was pretty impressed with what I saw the scope is finished in a FDE anodise which is quite pleasing to look at and the scope is finished off nicely too!
The scope comes with a sunshade and scope cover the cover is a little disappointing as they are the hard type ones you get with cheaper scopes I would've liked to have seen at least the Bikini covers you get with a NightForce! The instructions on how to set the zero stop is straight forward and not too hard same can be said for how to use the Horus H59 reticle.
I wanted to use a one piece Unimount from Night Force for the scope but didn't do my measurements right and forgot to allow for the Picatinny rail which as you can see by the pic was waaay too high! I'm going to use a Spuhr mount eventually but I was impatient and ordered a set of the New NightForce Ultralite six bolt 34mm rings in Medium which as you can see were spot on.
With the Medium rings
All mounted up on the .338 Edge I got the .260 with the NF F1 and sat them side by side to get a comparison on size.
As you can see the XRS is a little longer than the NF and the only other discernible difference is the 34mm tube of the Bushnell. However the Bushnell does look beefier than the NF.
The thing that you really notice is the size of the Turrets on the XRS they are huge being nearly twice the size of the NF turrets which felt nice in the hand and should be good during winter with gloves on!
I took the XRS back off the mounts and rifle and took it outside and mounted it onto my tripod and did some macro/closeup shots of the Scope.
As you can see the scope is finished off like you'd expect a $2200 to be!
I set the scope on 4.5x and focused it in on a shed in the distance as you can see the Bushnell is a very bright scope it was 16:30min the afternoon and the image is a lot brighter then the surrounds I had trouble trying to pickup the H59 reticle with the camera but at even 4.5x you could still easily make out the Mil hash marks.
I zoomed in on the reticle to try and show it but it was bloody hard to try and get the reticle and shed in focus! but you can see the reticle at 4.5x.
The next image is wound up to 30x you lose about 4Mils of the reticle but still a heap left to play with! the stadia lines aren't too heavy either about as thin as my NF at 15x and the XRS is at 30x!!
Having the NF and XRS side by side the brightness of the Bushnell is very noticeable to that of the NF same goes for the colour saturation and clarity I'm no optical engineer and I could notice it!
I took the scope to Majura and did a grid test consisting of zero at 100m left corner grid square then up 6Mils across 3Mils then down 6Mils then return to zero stops. The scope tracked perfectly to the mark I'm really liking the H59 grid too I've been so impressed with this scope that I bought one of the LMSS Spotters and as S12A can tell you their very impressive I got the H32 which is similar to the H59 so now I can have someone call the exact correction when calling shots!
Cheers Nathan
1. Opening the box I was pretty impressed with what I saw the scope is finished in a FDE anodise which is quite pleasing to look at and the scope is finished off nicely too!
The scope comes with a sunshade and scope cover the cover is a little disappointing as they are the hard type ones you get with cheaper scopes I would've liked to have seen at least the Bikini covers you get with a NightForce! The instructions on how to set the zero stop is straight forward and not too hard same can be said for how to use the Horus H59 reticle.
I wanted to use a one piece Unimount from Night Force for the scope but didn't do my measurements right and forgot to allow for the Picatinny rail which as you can see by the pic was waaay too high! I'm going to use a Spuhr mount eventually but I was impatient and ordered a set of the New NightForce Ultralite six bolt 34mm rings in Medium which as you can see were spot on.
With the Medium rings
All mounted up on the .338 Edge I got the .260 with the NF F1 and sat them side by side to get a comparison on size.
As you can see the XRS is a little longer than the NF and the only other discernible difference is the 34mm tube of the Bushnell. However the Bushnell does look beefier than the NF.
The thing that you really notice is the size of the Turrets on the XRS they are huge being nearly twice the size of the NF turrets which felt nice in the hand and should be good during winter with gloves on!
I took the XRS back off the mounts and rifle and took it outside and mounted it onto my tripod and did some macro/closeup shots of the Scope.
As you can see the scope is finished off like you'd expect a $2200 to be!
I set the scope on 4.5x and focused it in on a shed in the distance as you can see the Bushnell is a very bright scope it was 16:30min the afternoon and the image is a lot brighter then the surrounds I had trouble trying to pickup the H59 reticle with the camera but at even 4.5x you could still easily make out the Mil hash marks.
I zoomed in on the reticle to try and show it but it was bloody hard to try and get the reticle and shed in focus! but you can see the reticle at 4.5x.
The next image is wound up to 30x you lose about 4Mils of the reticle but still a heap left to play with! the stadia lines aren't too heavy either about as thin as my NF at 15x and the XRS is at 30x!!
Having the NF and XRS side by side the brightness of the Bushnell is very noticeable to that of the NF same goes for the colour saturation and clarity I'm no optical engineer and I could notice it!
I took the scope to Majura and did a grid test consisting of zero at 100m left corner grid square then up 6Mils across 3Mils then down 6Mils then return to zero stops. The scope tracked perfectly to the mark I'm really liking the H59 grid too I've been so impressed with this scope that I bought one of the LMSS Spotters and as S12A can tell you their very impressive I got the H32 which is similar to the H59 so now I can have someone call the exact correction when calling shots!
Cheers Nathan
Great trackability and built tough, the turrets are big but when dialling up and down to dope shots they are awesome. Very nice to use in cold weather when you have gloves on.
They're nowhere near as long as a NF 
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